Example sentences of "[noun pl] did the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would happen if other advanced nations did the same ? |
| 2 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |
| 3 | With everybody else who worked in shops did the same thing . |
| 4 | The Egyptian magicians did the same through their secret arts . |
| 5 | Able to see by lights from their pit helmets , the trapped miners cut the pipe at their end of the blockage while their rescuers did the same , pumping through fresh air by fan . |
| 6 | Olive baboons in Gabon defaecate in their home areas , thereby concentrating edible-fruited species , and the Liebermans speculate that the early hominids did the same because there is evidence that there were proto-gardens around occupation sites and that animals were unaware how edible plants came to be there ; a phenomenon known as the ‘ Eden Syndrome ’ . |
| 7 | Other foster children with happy memories did the same , though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic . |
| 8 | Three days later , three more officers did the same thing . |
| 9 | The two boys stood back to back , the girls did the same . |
| 10 | ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . ) |
| 11 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |
| 12 | A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively . |
| 13 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 14 | These two men did the same sort of job . |
| 15 | One after another , the rest of the men did the same . |
| 16 | Blake noticed that people used more than words when they communicated with each other , and realised that horses did the same . |
| 17 | One of the footballers did the same as Evelyn . |
| 18 | Immediately you touched those bones , and all the others did the same , laughing and jostling to get at the coffin . |
| 19 | The others did the same , and yawned . |
| 20 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 21 | In our study , gender was taken account of in the selection of workshops : we studied workshops with men only , with women only , workshops where men and women did the same work and were paid at the same rate , and those where the sexes did different jobs and men were paid more than women . |
| 22 | Well , what if the prisons did the same ? |
| 23 | As it did so , the other two Tree Spirits did the same , the branches of the Larch reaching forward , until Fenella could lean over and grasp them . |